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Remember: Bill Gates actually loses money if he takes the time to pick up a $100 bill in the street.
by ordinary 15y ago
Remember: Bill Gates actually loses money if he takes the time to pick up a $100 bill in the street.
- peteretep 15y agoOnly in the hugely unrealistic scenario where doing such a thing suddenly pauses all of his cash-generating assets. Which it doesn't.
- ordinary 15y agoOne could argue that if he'd spent all his life picking up 100 dollar bills, he wouldn't /have/ any other cash-generating assets. Anyway, it was just an analogy: my point was that applying yourself to your normal day-to-day activities on the job is probably more productive than spending an hour a month scraping together pennies here and there. Even if we aren't all Bill Gateses.
- astrodust 15y agoIn his heyday, but now his income might be lower than yours considering how much he's funnelling into his charity.